Onasuki Books
Appetite Remains: Sawako Agawa
[Note] This is a complete food-porn essay.
No desire for material things.
No desire for love (presumably).
All that remains for Agawa is
appetite!
From a beer to start with,
to time-consuming
roast chicken.
Delicious daily life
is gathered here.
Since I was a child,
I have loved to eat.
Simple home cooking
made by my mother,
a warm table surrounded by family.
Now that I am an adult,
I cook alone,
eat alone,
and shout to myself,
"Am I a genius?"
Out-of-season roast chicken.
Sea squirt eaten in the middle of the night.
Even moldy bread,
if you just scrape it off a little,
oh, it's delicious.
A little lonely.
But appetite is in full swing,
happy again today.
A collection of superb food essays
compiled from the series in the magazine "Croissant".
Table of ContentsBliss of a block of tofu
Regret cake
Enchanting rice toppings
Just ginger
Whirring cuisine
Evaluation taste
Solo review
Passion fruit
Scolded butter
Deeply in love with cheap wine
Katsu sandwich observation
Oh, miso soup
Cocktail bag
Ginger juice
Unexpected relationship
Turnips and colds
Revived appetite
Remembered snacks
Selective dining table
Sweet nostalgia
Hard bread
Francis's morning
Vegetable hater
Rediscovering Korea: Tree roots
Korea and curry
Pavlov's soba
Out-of-season chicken
Beer for now
Soft-boiled era
Watermelon's home
Lonely sea squirt
One onion
Where is the chicken?
Rules of Nice
Mummy revival movement
Meat miso delusion
Shell-removing man
Canelé-kun's achievement
Canelé-kun continued
This is dangerous,
I'm really getting hungry!
I understand the food-porn essay!
"Mother's Taste, Mostly Taught" Sawako Agawa
Agawa's specialty,
the latest essay on food!
It's not very useful
as a recipe,
but reading it makes you want to
stand in the kitchen.
I got married,
I saw my parents off,
and all that's left for me is finally
that one desire.
Struggling to reproduce
the nostalgic taste of my mother,
being warned about arteriosclerosis,
getting food poisoning from my favorite oysters repeatedly,
but my appetite and curiosity
are the same as ever.
A delicious collection of essays
born from these days.
Nutritious soup made by the queen
Sawako Agawa "Mother's Taste, Mostly Taught"
Each piece is a good length,
and I'm curious about what kind of food
will come out next,
so like Kappa Ebisen,
I can't stop turning the pages.
There are dishes that appear many times,
like lemon rice and
chirashi sushi.
They must be important memories
for Ms. Agawa.
However, a skilled cook
doesn't bore the reader
even when dealing with the same thing.
The next sentence might be
the secret to her own writing.
"Menu planning is like
a relay race.
You take the baton of leftover side dishes and ingredients,
transform them, and give birth to new dishes.
At the same time, you think about the compatibility
between dishes,
and devise ways to promote the movement of chopsticks."
Even in the secluded life of the COVID-19 pandemic,
she thinks about how to keep daily life from stagnating,
making it fresh and interesting.
Eating fried eggs, which are considered a breakfast staple, for dinner,
and pairing morning toast with
miso soup,
the idea of "morning-night exchange"
was also an eye-opener.
Eating can be freer.
It makes me want to make something too,
a review that makes me think that.
It's just everyday meals,
so maybe I don't have to do anything too elaborate?
That's right.
Even bread with butter and miso soup
is okay, isn't it?
I imagine that many recipes
will come out
with ideas unique to Ms. Agawa,
who was raised by a foodie father,
and I imagine it on my own.
"The Dangerous Dining Table of the Agawa Family" Sawako Agawa
"Bad" was the last word
my father said to me.
While eating breakfast,
he would ask, "What are you going to feed me tonight?"
and his motto was,
"I don't want to eat anything bad."
Father Hiroyuki, such a foodie
and short-tempered husband.
A mother who continued to stand in the kitchen
for that husband and four children,
and is now over ninety.
And a daughter who has become busy
with her acting career.
A history of the family
written in scenes of a dining table
where every meal is full of turmoil.
Includes a memorial essay for Makoto Wada.
What was the last supper of writer Hiroyuki Agawa,
whose catchphrase was "I don't want to eat anything bad even once until I die"?
<The catchphrase of my father, who passed away in 2015, was,
"When I think about how many more times I can eat until I die,
I don't want to eat anything bad even once."
On days when he happened to encounter a meal he didn't like,
he would seriously get angry,
"I lost one time. What are you going to do about it!"
> On the other hand, "Let's go eat something delicious"
was a daily phrase.
When the author was in junior high school,
she replaced her absent mother
and spent six hours making "Dongpo pork"
referencing a cookbook,
and when she served it for dinner,
the reaction to the first bite,
which he enjoyed by saying "Did Sawako make this for me today?"
was "Okay, let's go eat something delicious tomorrow."
I understand the misery of being treated with consideration
by not clearly saying "bad."
A critical spirit (?) that cannot lie as an expresser,
but also the parental heart that must not point it out too accurately.
This episode was heartwarming.
My father ate everything
that was served to him.
What did he like and what did he dislike?
I didn't know.
But the only thing he insisted on was
that he couldn't handle hot things.
He had a cat's tongue!
Did I resemble my father,
a cat's tongue too.
I'm not good with hot things.
But likes and dislikes,
did I resemble my mother,
I don't eat what I don't like,
and I say I don't like it.
"The Song of Curry Rice" Hiroyuki Agawa
Rokusuke and Chizuko lost their jobs
due to the company's bankruptcy.
They are tired of being used by others.
So they came up with the idea of
a delicious curry rice shop.
Will the young couple be able to
realize their dream of opening a business?
And what will happen to their love?
There are people who get in the way,
and people who help.
A superb entertainment novel
packed with the spice of dreams and hope!
A masterpiece by the literary giant Hiroyuki Agawa,
known as a foodie!
The year this book was written,
1961,
was 16 years after the war ended,
and Japan was buzzing with the high economic growth of the Jinmu and Iwato booms.
A stock market boom was occurring,
and the term
"money building"
was popular even among amateur investors.
However,
the prices of daily necessities were still low,
with curry rice costing
"100 yen per plate,"
home rotary phones were not in every house,
and it was an era before the Shinkansen.
Adults of that time
buried the bitter memories of the depths of the war deep in their bellies,
and while whistling,
filled themselves with upward-looking hope.
That hope is
depicted lightheartedly in "Curry Rice Song"
through episodes involving "stocks" and various foods.
A story about a curry restaurant in the post-war era?
A bowl of curry for 100 yen, huh.
It reminded me of the NHK morning drama
"Gochisousan"
.
I didn't expect there to be talk of stocks, too.
We hear a lot about stocks in Japan today as well, don't we?
Things like NISA and iDeCo, for example.
I'm a little curious about what
stocks were like in the post-war era.
Even so,
it really shows that Mr. Agawa
loved to eat,
and that his daughter, Sawako Agawa,
is also a foodie.
Her father,
Hiroyuki Agawa's motto, "I don't want to eat anything that tastes bad even once until I die,"
really came through.
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